Burns was playing ice hockey, like he did every Friday night, when he got the call to action.'Not Yet Detective' Charles Burns hasn't joined a newly formed major crimes task force with the Metropolitan Police. That was supposed to happen Monday. But a brilliant young scientist has disappeared, along with a potentially lethal discovery, Little is known about the scientist, but his work has attracted the attention of more than just the Health Ministry, and an unknown organisation with a global agenda may have plans to weaponise it.

Dr Nicholas Veda thought he would save the lives of millions with his new vaccine. But something went wrong on the way to saving the world, and an unforeseen accident has turned his vaccine into a deadly formula. Instead of preventing the deaths of millions, in the wrong hands it could be used for the opposite purpose.

SOMETHING IN THE WATER Book One: "Drowning" follows Burns and a newly formed unit of the London Metropolitan Police in real time as they search for the missing scientist and try to stop his discovery from becoming a weapon against humanity.